ANYTHING that walked the earth before could be brought back to roam for fair chase hunting... WHAT would you choose and what would you use to hunt it?
T-rex, Bison, Saber tooth, Mastedon... maybe a litle high grass excitement hunting VelocaRaptors...?? redefine DG hunting.

every now and then we need a flight of fantasy to keep the "what ifs" alive.

Without a doubt-- Irish Elk.

megalaceros giganteus



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MAMOTH Think of the ivory you could get off one of them!!!!!!!

Also you could hunt them in the midwest USA all the way up to Alberta where they lived. No need for a 30 hour plane ride.

I agree, the Irish Elk and Woolly Mammoth.

And also the Giant Cave Bear.



And Smilodon Fatalis, the Saber Toothed Cat.

Easy: T-Rex.

The ones caused by crazy over hunting.
Merriam's elk and the Eastern elk.
California grizzly too.

The Mastodon, and the T-Rex.

I"ll vote for T-rex as well! I know lots of ideal places to introduce them!(although they may force me to rethink my loyalty to the .243)
good shooting

Have to agree with the T-Rex. Eatimus Maximus!!

T-Rex the the pteranadon for a new kind of wing shooting. As far a extinct fish go, the megaladon would get my vote. What a catch.

There is a wonderful old time radio program about a time machine where they took you back to dinosaur days to hunt !!! The funny part was the hunter wanted the biggest trophy like a T-Rex.But the PH asks if he has room in his house for a head mount .He then explains that he can find a smaller animal that will be as challenging to hunt but the mount will fit in the house !!

Either the saber tooth cat or the American Lion.


But it would also need more prey species so we would have to add the Stag Moose.

The meat on a mamoth would probably be better than a T-Rex...But i'm leaning toward the Irish Elk.

The very first animal which came ot mind was the Mastadon, then the Sabre Tooth kitty, and the T Rex showed promise. That said IdahoVandal cured me of that proving a picture is worth a thousand words. No doubt what so ever, the Irish Stag would be my number one...



Great topic Lawcop!

passenger pigeon. think Argentina in the Old South.

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Originally posted by mete:
There is a wonderful old time radio program about a time machine where they took you back to dinosaur days to hunt !!! The funny part was the hunter wanted the biggest trophy like a T-Rex.But the PH asks if he has room in his house for a head mount .He then explains that he can find a smaller animal that will be as challenging to hunt but the mount will fit in the house !!

There was a story similar to that in one of the really good old timey comic books where a guy gets to go back to hunt a T-rex. he is cautioned to not step off the prescribed trail for any reason. of course the T-rex charges and h in order to dodge the ebast, he goes off the trail stepping on and crushing a plant. When he and the PH return to the present time, intelligent ants rule the earth.
As to what I would hunt, when the question was first asked, the Irish Elk jumped into my head right off the bat. here in Tucson, there is the International Wildlife Museum, and they have a mock up of an Irish Elk and the damned thing is huge. I don't know if the rack is real or a mock up, but what a fantastic animal. They also have a mock up of a wooly mammoth. I guess he'd be number two on the list.
I'm not sure I'd bring back Velociraptors. They'd be about as welcome as the wolves are in Montana and Idaho right now and a hell of a lot more hazardous. T-rex? Who the hell has room for a full body mount?
Paul B.

so when supposdely did the irish elk and the stag moose become extinct ?

Velociraptor

Hello the campfire:
Eastern Elk and Wood Land Bison. I saw a story on History Detectives last night about a now extinct bison that was much larger with MUCH larger straight horns in the plains states. This was 5000 years ago and was hunted with a spear thrower or atalatal(sp?).

Black bears in Alabama would be nice.

Judge Sharpe

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Originally posted by Jarrod:
so when supposdely did the irish elk and the stag moose become extinct ?

Stag Moose about 11,500 years ago
http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/larson/cervalces.html

Irish Elk about 13,000 years ago
http://www.smouse.force9.co.uk/history.htm

Personally, I'd like to see the Grizzly bear re-introduced to Griffith Park in Los Angeles. Maybe wolves there too ...



analog_peninsula

Hell, I'd be happy with wild boar in New Brunswick

I'd like to see us get woodland caribau back as well.

HMMM one of the problems of free ranging T-Rex, what if one accidently gets scared and runs into a city like deer sometimes do?


ALTHOUGH
it is a GREAT excuse for getting that new double rifle in 40mm. After all a fast second shot may be necesary.

what about hitler?or stalin?make a hell of a shoulder mount

Ankylosaurus or triceratops. Or how about a Megaraptor..

http://www.dinosauria.com/gallery/joe/megaraptor.jpg

Clone them and drop um off in the middle east..

That's the best idea yet Drop a few of the Raptors and lions and all the greatest predators RIGHT IN the middle of the insane Middle east Feeding grounds ! after we get our boys out first ! Bona a petite !

I didn't realize that the Irish Elk and the Stag Moose were separate species, as they were of similar size and appearance. Perhaps, since they seem to have been contemporaries, they were related similar to today's Old World Red Deer and New World Wapiti? At any rate, I'd love to have either show up on my whitetail lease.

The American Lion was much larger, and despite the lack of outsized inscisors, a much more formidable cat than the Saber Tooth (smilodon). But again, either would make for interesting blind-sitting.

If you've never visited the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, it's truly a stop worth your while.

I'd also like to add the Giant Short-Faced Bear.

In Griffith Park, of course.

analog_peninsula

RAPTORS would be interesting to hunt...
and T-rex would be a blast..
BUT
could you imagine having to tear out the house walls and raise the rooff so you could bring in your Irish stag head home as a full shoulder mount?

Gotta go with the T-Rex.

Oh boy, I can tell it is not hunting season yet with these topics on the board.But in good taste I too am bored and will play along,Sabre tooth,or any of the large toothey dinos

Mastodon......

I'd bring back the Mastadon, the sabretoothed cat, the giant Cave Bear, and the Alligator is still here! Then I wouldn't have to fly 15 thousand miles in a cramped airplane to Africa, I could just hunt on my grand father's ranch!

Without a doubt T-REX.

Lots of good ideas. Here's another North American critter long gone: "The Big Bend Pterodactyl is estimated to have a wingspan of thirty-eight feet."

What the heck would you shoot one with?

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Originally posted by erict:
Lots of good ideas. Here's another North American critter long gone: "The Big Bend Pterodactyl is estimated to have a wingspan of thirty-eight feet."

What the heck would you shoot one with?

An M-42 mobile AAA tank with a pair of 40MM anti aircraft guns!

10-gauge goose gun? Just be sure to hit the head!

Without a doubt the Imperial Wooly Mammoth. After that maybe a Sabre Tooth Cat.

Definitely the Irish Elk, that would really feed the 243/270 arguments for deer.

I believe DNA studies show that the nearest surviving relative to the Irish Elk is the European Fallow Deer.

T-Rex would probably top my list. I'm a little suprised nobody has mentioned Neanderthal. Supposedly they are a different species then human.

After seeing the pictures of the Irish Elk it gets my vote.